Our Time Scrapers

It has been great fun exploring scrapers in class the last couple of weeks. There are lots of things that can be scrapped to make sounds, today we tried plastic cups. Have a look at home and see how many things you can find which can be scrapped to make a sound. Plastic rigged bottles work well.

Remember to bring in a home-made scraper to the next class. Fancy trying something a little unusual then try this ides from the Growing Sound website.

Imagine That Activity 5

This week why not become nature detectives. It's a great time of year to find things which have been tossed around by the wind. A brisk walk in the woods will find a treasure chest of finds.

The nature detectives website has loads of ideas for autumn activities.

Bring in anything exciting you find to show us next time.

Sea Sounds - Young Child

In our class today we spent some time listening to sea sounds. During our next lesson we will compose a piece of music together about the sea. Remember to bring in something which makes a sound which reminds you of the sea in some way.

For those of you are interested, we listened to an extract of sea interludes by Benjamin Britten.



There are four interludes in total a quick search on you tube will bring up the others.

Swedish Frogs Quack

We had great fun in the Our Time class today using scraping sounds to imitate the croak of the little frogs we were singing about - except Swedish frogs 'ko ack'. It is a fascinating fact that animal sounds in other languages are not always what we would expect. Check out this link for more info. Animal Sounds

Telephone problems

Just to let you know that we have been having problems with phones over the last few weeks. If you have tried to get in contact by telephone and we haven't got back to you please accept our sincere apologies. Everything seems to be sorted now, so please give us another call.

What a Fab Week

After such a long summer break I was wondering how I was going to feel about starting all my music-making up again.

Funny enough when people ask me if I work I hesitate a little. I often just don't think of what I do as a job. "It's not a proper job!" Surely I can't call having so much fun a job.

My Dad always taught me that we can't expect to enjoy our work - we do it because we have to! Well I think I've finally proved him wrong and I am sure he would be overjoyed to know that.

I can honestly say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the last two weeks. Seeing old friends making new ones and once again realising the immense joy music brings, and not just to the children. I am sure all the participants in the Virginia Reel in Village this week would agree that it was such excellent fun, even if I did mess up the steps.

Most of you should have your packs by now I will email all Village people a copy of the home book in the next few days.

Just have a look through your resources this week, listen to the CD and come prepared to just be yourself next week in class.

Kate

Family-Celebration-Time

What a fantastic way to spend my Saturday mornings! I am lucky enough to see first hand the delight on the childrens faces as they play, dance, sing, jiggle and bounce with their family members.

I'm thankful to the parents and the carers who bring their children to my class and enjoy this special time they have with them at the weekend.

We are coming upto our third week now and on Saturday we will be enjoying some 'Kitchen' activities and dancing to Little Sacka Sugar like wooden spoons stirring the batter and plopping like eggs into the bowl... Now all we have to do as grown ups is watch the children's minds fizz with imagination and see what kind of 'mixture' we will all end up in in class!

I can't wait!

VicXX